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There was a vaccine mandate case for nurses in NJ that the supreme court declined to hear yesterday. It looks like that mandate still stands for healthcare workers.
https://njbia.org/us-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-nj-covid-19-vaccine-case/ | https://archive.ph/9wnxX
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/supreme-court-delivers-blow-to-vaccine-skeptics/ar-AA1jUCdl | https://archive.ph/wT8Fc
The article does have some more information including this bit at the bottom which relates to @MMS-China's post above.
https://njbia.org/us-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-nj-covid-19-vaccine-case/ | https://archive.ph/9wnxX
Here's a more MSM article about it. Love the headline poisoning the wellThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined without comment to hear an appeal of a 2022 case brought by four Hunterdon Medical Center nurses who challenged the constitutionality of New Jersey’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare professionals.
In an orders list, the nation’s highest court declined to grant certiorari in the case of Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Murphy, Gov. of New Jersey, et al. By refusing to hear oral arguments in the case, the Supreme Court is allowing a lower court decision that upheld the mandate in place at the time to stand.
The nurses – Katie Sczesny, Jamie Rumfield, Debra Hagen, and Mariette Vitti – had challenged the constitutionality of a series of executive orders issued by Gov. Phil Murphy in January, March and April of 2022. These orders collectively required workers in healthcare and congregate living settings to be up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations and their first booster shot to protect patients’ health.
The nurses had sought an injunction that would have prevented their employer, Hunterdon County Medical Center, which was not a party to the lawsuit, from enforcing its vaccine booster policy per Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive orders.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/supreme-court-delivers-blow-to-vaccine-skeptics/ar-AA1jUCdl | https://archive.ph/wT8Fc
The article does have some more information including this bit at the bottom which relates to @MMS-China's post above.
"EO 283 violates the liberty and privacy rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, including the right to refuse medical procedures and the right to not be medically surveilled by government actors," the nurses wrote.
They also argued that the vaccine mandates violated their religious freedoms, and one portion of the complaint explains that Sczesny was pregnant and did not want to receive a booster while pregnant. The complaint alleges that Sczesny was informed her pregnancy "was not a legitimate reason to wait to receive her booster" by her employer.
The challenge was later dismissed by the lower court of appeals, but the four nurses rechallenged, asking the Supreme Court to hear their arguments.